Building compliance in healthcare

If you’re an NHS property portfolio or estate manager, you’ll understand why compliance is vital. But how do you achieve it – in both the short term and long term?

Here are the three ways we help our healthcare industry clients achieve and maintain compliance with all government regulations.

Condition surveys

Condition surveys are thorough visual inspections that offer insight and analysis of the physical, mechanical and electrical condition of a building or estate.

It is essential that condition surveys are regularly conducted by property owners or managers, as it helps present a clearer image of where a building can improve efficiency, as well as spot any problems with the building early.

These surveys ensure the MEP systems in buildings are working to maximum efficiency, whilst also helping estate managers plan their capital and reactive budget spending.

Risk assessments

Within the healthcare industry, we are sure you’ll be well aware of risk assessments and their importance. And they are no less important from a property management perspective.

Risk assessments analyse multiple aspects of your building, such as the risk of systems failing, the age of pipeworks, ventilation systems and much more. Importantly, they’ll also consider changes in legislation such as building standards and NHS-specific compliance requirements.

Only by having regular, up-to-date risk assessments, will you be able to ensure compliance with the strict regulations within the healthcare industry.

Maintenance scheduling

Maintenance works on your portfolio can be split into three groups – emergency, proactive and reactive.

Understandably, emergency and reactive maintenance is commonplace – fixing a problem after it’s been discovered, or when it’s already impacting your property.

With tight budgets and a lack of governmental appetite to invest, proactive maintenance is often sacrificed in the healthcare space. However, this means that when problems do arise, they become reactive or emergency issues that cost more to fix and can shorten building services life cycles.

By working with a trusted partner, you can better understand the condition of your estate and take proactive actions to save costs in the long-run whilst better protecting your staff and patients.

Why Demiurgic are best placed to help you

We understand the importance of compliance within the healthcare industry, and the difficulty NHS property portfolio and estates managers have in finding a trustworthy, experienced and reliable partner.

Our teams are extensively experienced in working on buildings within the healthcare industry, and understand how requirements differ depending on usage, from intensive care units to diagnostic centres.

When you’re working within such an important industry, it’s vital that you have a partner who understands the unique challenges you face and acts in your best interests. We holistically review and implement changes across small and large portfolios for the benefit of your users and staff.

We’ve partnered with multiple NHS trusts across the country for many years to ensure their buildings match the required standards to maintain, or even exceed, compliance with rigorous industry regulations.

If you’d like our help in achieving the same successes, we’d love to hear from you. You can talk to one of our team by contacting us now.